Andrew Huberman· PhD
But we want to emphasize that when you undergo a meditation practice, if it's of the sort where you stop your movement and close your eyes, you are training for interoceptive awareness.
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But we want to emphasize that when you undergo a meditation practice, if it's of the sort where you stop your movement and close your eyes, you are training for interoceptive awareness.
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It does seem to be an ability that can be trained up quite a bit, and, in fact, meditative practices will improve your interoceptive awareness
In addition, a meditative practice done regularly, because it can allow us to become more interoceptively aware or it can allow us to become more exteroceptively aware, which is really just another form of dissociation, again, dissociation isn't always bad provided it's not at the extreme, a meditative practice can actually teach us to deliberately
So I think of-- at a basic level meditation as somewhat of a perceptual exercise.